There May Be Nobody There
I’ve encountered a new acronym that I immediately fell for. AI;DR. Now, it means artificial intelligence, did not read. Why does this sound good, though? People are protesting t...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
The SDLC Was Designed for Humans
I was doing research on what to build next in the AI world. I’ve done a few hobby projects that have gone nowhere. I was fishing for the next. I was looking for an interesting i...
Skellig Michael, Eventually
Left home on Saturday and drove from Dublin, almost five hours in total. Made a stop on the way for some soup and the roast of the day, which was fantastic. Saved the place on t...
The Wind at Your Back
When I was preparing for the college entrance exam, I wanted to study computer science because I had watched The Matrix. Yeah, I know, it’s not a big story. The other thing I le...
The Invariant Is Hiding
Emily's platform team has a cost problem. They run thousands of workloads for application teams, and too much compute sits idle most of the day. Emily has a fairly obvious propo...